Research Interests

Experimental Phonetics, Intonational Phonology

Prosodic Structures of Tone and Atonal Languages

Prosody modeling, Syntax/Prosody Interface


Conference Presentations
Sep 2005 "Prosodic cues for syntactically-motivated junctures." Interspeech 2005- 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. Lisbon, Portugal.
Mar 2005
"The Processing of prosodic juncture markers in speech production and perception." Faculty of Arts and Humanities Poster Sessions. University of Western Ontario.
Feb 2005 "Prosodic Utterance Processing in Cantonese." Speech Research Forum Meeting. University of Toronto.
Dec 2004 "An Experimental investigation of the prosodic utterance structure processing in speech production and perception." The 8th Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics. York University.
Jun 2004
"A Study of the melodic contour of Mandarin and French through syntactic structural ambiguity." The 9th Laboratory Phonology Conference. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Mar 2004
"Does prosodic-foot disyllabicity hold a default status in Mandarin speech perception?"
Speech Prosody 2004 Conference (SP2004). Nara, Japan.
Nov 2003
"An investigation of the role of pitch Reset in resolving syntactic ambiguity in French and Mandarin." The 6th Northwest Centre for Linguistics (NWCL) "Prosody and Pragmatics" Conference.  University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom.
Oct 2003
"Ambiguity resolution in French by way of melodic contour: An acoustic study." Approaching Asymmetry at the Interfaces (AAI).  Université du Québec à Montréal.
May 2002
"Research in the prosodic structure of Mandarin - a progress report on the acoustic experiment" Multimodality of Human Communication: Theories, Problems and Applications. University of Toronto.


Invited Lectures
Jan 2004
Seminar Series: "Atelier sur l'analyse acoustique et la phonétique instrumentale." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Laboratory. University of Western Ontario.
Sep 2004 "Prosodic Processing of Utterance Structure." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Laboratory. University of Western Ontario.
Oct 2001 "Les resources multimédia francophone sur l'internet: une session pédagogique." Département des études françaises, University of Toronto.
Nov 1999
"L'utilisation de la technologie multimédia dans l'enseignement du français langue seconde." Multimedia Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto.


Journal Reviews
2005 Applied Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press.



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